The project intends to look at membership as a relationship between supply and demand, the members and the party organization, in a dynamic perspective. We focus on two main questions: (1) Under which conditions and how do parties recruit and retain members, and (2) What’s happening inside parties once members have joined, and we link them to the general debate on party membership decline.
In answering these questions, our ambition is to contribute to the field on three aspects:
(1) To conduct the most ambitious data collection on party membership so far,
(2) To propose high-standard methodological tools in order to go beyond a static picture of party membership, and
(3) To renew our pool of theoretical models, moving away from traditional models of political participation.
Who is involved?
- Project Director
Emilie van Haute, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Cevipol - Advisory Board
Susan Scarrow, University of Houston
Steven Weldon, Simon Fraser University
Paul Whiteley, Essex University - Country experts
| Australia | Anika Gauja | University of Sydney |
| Austria | Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik | University of Vienna |
| Belgium | Emilie van Haute | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Brazil | Pedro Floriano Ribeiro | Universidade Federal de São Carlos |
| Canada | William Cross | Carleton University |
| Croatia | Bojana Kocijan | Central European University |
| Cyprus | Christophoros Christophorou | University of Nicosia |
| Czech Republic | Lukas Linek | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Denmark | Karina Kosiara-Pedersen | University of Copenhagen |
| Estonia | Vello Pettai | University of Tartu |
| Finland | Jussi Westinen | Åbo Akademi University |
| France | Pascal Delwit | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Germany | Tim Spier | Universität Siegen |
| Hungary | Zsolt Enyedi | Central European University |
| Iceland | Indridi Indridason | University of California, Riverside |
| Ireland | Liam Weeks | University College Cork |
| Israel | Ofer Kenig | The Israel Democracy Institute |
| Italy | Giulia Sandri | Université catholique de Lille |
| Latvia | Jānis Ikstens | University of Latvia |
| Lithuania | Mažvydas Jastramskis | University of Vilnius |
| Mexico | Viviens Sierens | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Netherlands | Ruud Koole | Leiden University |
| Joop van Holsteyn | Leiden University | |
| Josje den Ridder | Leiden University | |
| Gerrit Voerman | University of Groningen | |
| Norway | Knut Heidar | University of Oslo |
| Anders Ravik Jupskås | University of Oslo | |
| Poland | Anna Paczesniak | University of Wroclaw |
| Portugal | Paula Espirito Santo | Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa |
| Romania | Sorina Soare | Universita degli studi di Firenze |
| Alexandra Ionascu | University of Bucharest | |
| Slovakia | Michal Zemanik | University of Bratislava |
| Slovenia | Alenka Krasovec | University of Ljubljana |
| Spain | Oscar Barberà | Universitat de Valencia |
| Juan Rodriguez Teruel | Universitat de Valencia | |
| Sweden | Niklas Bolin | Mid Sweden University |
| Switzerland | Andreas Ladner | Université de Lausanne |
| United Kingdom | Lynn Bennie | University of Aberdeen |
| Australia | Anika Gauja | University of Sydney |
| Austria | Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik | University of Vienna |
| Belgium | Emilie van Haute | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Brazil | Pedro Floriano Ribeiro | Universidade Federal de São Carlos |
| Canada | William Cross | Carleton University |
| Croatia | Bojana Kocijan | Central European University |
| Cyprus | Christophoros Christophorou | University of Nicosia |
| Czech Republic | Lukas Linek | Czech Academy of Sciences |
| Denmark | Karina Kosiara-Pedersen | University of Copenhagen |
| Estonia | Vello Pettai | University of Tartu |
| Finland | Jussi Westinen | Åbo Akademi University |
| France | Pascal Delwit | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Germany | Tim Spier | Universität Siegen |
| Hungary | Zsolt Enyedi | Central European University |
| Iceland | Indridi Indridason | University of California, Riverside |
| Ireland | Liam Weeks | University College Cork |
| Israel | Ofer Kenig | The Israel Democracy Institute |
| Italy | Giulia Sandri | Université catholique de Lille |
| Latvia | Jānis Ikstens | University of Latvia |
| Lithuania | Mažvydas Jastramskis | University of Vilnius |
| Mexico | Viviens Sierens | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Netherlands | Ruud Koole | Leiden University |
| Joop van Holsteyn | Leiden University | |
| Josje den Ridder | Leiden University | |
| Gerrit Voerman | University of Groningen | |
| Norway | Knut Heidar | University of Oslo |
| Anders Ravik Jupskås | University of Oslo | |
| Poland | Anna Paczesniak | University of Wroclaw |
| Portugal | Paula Espirito Santo | Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa |
| Romania | Sorina Soare | Universita degli studi di Firenze |
| Alexandra Ionascu | University of Bucharest | |
| Slovakia | Michal Zemanik | University of Bratislava |
| Slovenia | Alenka Krasovec | University of Ljubljana |
| Spain | Oscar Barberà | Universitat de Valencia |
| Juan Rodriguez Teruel | Universitat de Valencia | |
| Sweden | Niklas Bolin | Mid Sweden University |
| Switzerland | Andreas Ladner | Université de Lausanne |
| United Kingdom | Lynn Bennie | University of Aberdeen |